BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
As we have discussed before, someone – and I tried to find the source of the quote, but couldn’t – said that “four years ago Barack Obama was on a crusade; this year he’s in a campaign.”
Obama won the crusade, but Mitt Romney will win this campaign.
I know…I know. The polls are close. The national polls are tied; the state polls tilt toward Barack Obama. Continue reading
BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
We are at the point in the Presidential election cycle when the campaigns – and their allies – begin to run negative ads.
Everyone hates negative ads. Candidate after candidate vows he or she will “never go negative.” Supporters – especially donors – vow to leave the campaign if negative ads are even discussed, much less produced and put on TV.
Yet … yet … negative ads are a part of almost every campaign.
Mentor and friend Ed Rollins was a pretty fair Golden Gloves boxer when he was young. He has approached campaigns like he would a fight: You have to be prepared to throw a punch, take a punch, and throw a counter-punch. If you didn’t have the stomach for that, become a CPA, not a candidate for public office.
One of the first consultants I worked for was named Paul Newman. True.
Paul warned candidates that there would probably come a time when he would recommend the campaign – as he put it – “turn mother’s picture to the wall” and flay the skin off the opponent. Continue reading